David Gibbins > Quotes

“He knew that to achieve greatness you had to be an outsider. He knew that by struggling against adverse opinion, by sometimes feeling inadequate, you would become a stronger person, and that once you recognized your strengths you would develop a burning ambition to compensate for those feelings you had as a child, an ambition that would allow you to rise above them all.”
― David Gibbins, Total War Rome: Destroy Carthage

“Wrecks by implication are catastrophic events, but the voyages themselves can seem life-affirming -- full of rich experience, with ever-present danger and the prize always just beyond the horizon, drawing us on.”
― David Gibbins, A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks